Some people might be thinking why Zardari would ditch Nawaz as they have common enemy in Musharraf to fight. But is this assumption true? It seems that selfish Ganja thug forgets past suffering of others and only thinks of himself. He forgets that he made his men torture and tried to kill Zardari and others. He has also forgotten that his actions of stopping PIA plane to land in Pakistan could have killed many on that plane. Anyhow, Musharraf might be generous and forgiving, so he pardoned Nawaz and let him live. But does that mean all people in the world are like Musharraf? Well, for those who can think, here is something to read and ponder. They will get their answer:
Nawaz’s loyal police officer ‘ Inspector General Rana Maqbool’ who was in Sindh police when Zardari was prisoner in Pakistan during Nawaz government is accused of torturing Zardari in prison and wanted to get him killed … why and for who? Have a guess. Read the news here … dated 19th May 1999:
http://www.cnsnews.com/InDepth/archive/199…D19990519e.html
When Musharraf came to power in 1999, he made Rana Maqbool OSD … in other words … punished him … for what? Keep guessing. Well, Rana Maqbool is OSD since 1999 … good punishment by Musharraf for torture of Zardari, as I think there could have been no other cause for Musharraf to make Rana Maqbool OSD in 1999 other than torturing Zardari. One can confirm that Maqbool was made OSD in 1999 by Musharraf.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?p…0-4-2008_pg7_14
What happened when Nawaz came back after Feb 2008 election? His party PML(N) tried to make Rana Maqbool IG of Punjab. Zardari stopped that. Read news 14th April 2008.
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/Apr-2008/14/index11.php
Anyhow, Nawaz is waiting for time he can reward his old servant Rana Maqbool. Read news 20th April 2008
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?p…0-4-2008_pg7_14
Now come to another episode. One of right hand man of Zardari is Rahman Malik who is with Zardari all the time. What is his experience from Nawaz’s heavies? Read it in Guardian (UK).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/oct/2…elly.jasonburke
To make life easy, here is what is mentioned above in news on those sites:
http://www.cnsnews.com/InDepth/archive/199…D19990519e.html
PM’S Husband Tries to Injure Self, Again
19 May, 1999
By Akhtar Jamal
CNS Correspondent
Karachi, Pakistan (CNS) - Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s jailed husband, Asif Ali Zardari again “hurt himself” by cutting his tongue during police interrogation and was immediately admitted to a hospital by police.
**A police spokesman told CNS that Zardari tried to injure himself again as he did on Monday when he tried to cut his throat with a piece of broken glass. This time the former cabinet official “hurt himself during his interrogation this morning by pressing his tongue under his teeth” said the spokesman. **
Pakistani police have been questioning Zardari over his alleged involvement in the assassination of a senior Karachi judge two years ago. Zardari, a member of his wife’s government was taken into custody soon after its collapse in November 1996.
Last month Ms. Bhutto and her husband were sentenced to five years in prison and fined 8.6 million dollars on corruption charges. Bhutto had already fled the country.
Nisar Khuro, a senior official with Bhutto and Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) told the media that Zardari is being tortured by the police and was bleeding badly when police had to rush him to Aga Khan Hospital. Khuro later showed CNS clothing, which he described as the “blood stained cloths” of Zardari and said it was proof of police torture and not self-inflicted injuries.
A police spokesman denied the charges and claimed that Zardari “injured himself again to avoid further investigation and questioning.”
A large crowd of PPP supporters and local leaders gathered outside the Aga Khan Hospital to protest Zardari’s treatment. PPP leaders have called called for a general strike in Pakistan to protest the alleged police torture and interrogation of Zardari.
Inspector General Maqbool Rana, a top ranking police official, told reporters on Tuesday that Zardari “tried to attempt suicide” and instead was injured. Pakistan’s Information Minister Mushahid Hussain backed up the claim in an interview with BBC Wednesday morning. Hussain said he did not believe that Zardari had tried to commit suicide but was injured in the process. He also said that he was not aware if police had registered a case against him “for attempted suicide.”
Benazir Bhutto is now reportedly in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai and has been barred by that country’s authorities from making any statement about the situation.
A PPP spokesman told CNS that Benazir is planning to move to a city in the West where she can continue her “political activities.”
It has been reported that Bhutto will fly to London and Washington to appraise Western officials about Zardari’s situation.
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/Apr-2008/14/index11.php
Nawaz Sharif to bat for Rana Maqbool
Nadeem Syed
**LAHORE - Senior Police officer Rana Maqbool, who happens to enjoy support of some stalwarts of PML-N, is making last-ditch efforts to grab the office of Punjab IGP.
As Rana Maqbool had a long association with the Sharifs, therefore, he was reckoned as the natural choice for the IGP. But Rana’a hopes were shattered when the PPP Co-Chairman objected to his appointment as IGP in the context of his past ‘misconduct’ as far as the party was concerned.**
It is learnt that a lobby in the PML-N is active in pressing Nawaz Sharif to appoint Rana Maqbool IGP given his loyalty to the party. Sources concerned maintain that now Nawaz Sharif has decided to make special request to Zardari in person in their next meeting to clear Rana Maqbool’s name for the office of IGP. Both the leaders are due to meet on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The sources say that as compared to Nawaz Sharif, his brother Shahbaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister-designate is not very keen to have him on board as IGP. Rana recently lodged his protest with Nawaz when Shahbaz started interviewing senior police officers for the office of IGP. Shahbaz recently, interviewed five senior police officers at Raiwind. After the interviews, the issue for the selection of IGP has been shelved for the time being, probably to watch the drop scene with respect to Rana Maqbool’s efforts to become top police cop.
Meanwhile, the provincial government has not as yet made any request in this regard to Prime Minister House.
Due to the opposition of PPP to Rana Maqbool, the general impression is this that Punjab IGP will be the nominee of PPP. Meanwhile, in the police and administrative circles now all eyes are set on Zardari-Nawaz meeting early next week.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?p…0-4-2008_pg7_14
Nawaz to ‘accommodate’ Gen Ziauddin, Maqbool
By Azaz Syed
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has conveyed a message to former General Ziauddin Butt, the former director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who was appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS) by Nawaz triggering the coup by President Pervez Musharraf in 1999, and former Inspector General of Police Rana Maqbool Ahmed, saying they will be ‘accommodated at an opportune time’, a close aide of Nawaz told Daily Times on Saturday.
Ziauddin Butt, who had been appointed by Nawaz as COAS on October 12, 1999, is yet to receive his retirement benefits, as he had been dismissed from service. Rana Maqbool has been an officer on special duty (OSD) since 1999 when Musharraf took over the government.
The source said that both officers were expecting the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-PMLN coalition government to accommodate them. The source said that Butt was in ‘dire straits’ and could not properly look after his Lahore-based family.
Though dismissed from service, Butt reserves the right to appeal to the authorities concerned against his dismissal and receive retirement benefits.
The source said that Rana Maqbool would soon be posted in the Punjab.
Education Minister and PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal sympathised with the two officers, but said he knew nothing of Nawaz’s pledge.
When Daily Times approached Musharraf’s spokesman Rashid Qureshi, he said he did not know who had sacked Ziauddin Butt.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Athar Abbas said that Butt’s dismissal was a unique case, adding that a three-star general facing dismissal should get benefits from the authority which issued his dismissal orders.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/oct/2…elly.jasonburke
Search for the millions Sharif ‘stole’
The investigator Pakistan’s PM could not stop
Paul Farrelly in London and Jason Burke in Raiwind
The Observer, Sunday October 24 1999
**They tortured Rehman Malik by placing his hands and feet on ice for up to an hour at a time at a ‘safe house’ in Islamabad. Three years on, he still has trouble feeling sensations in his palms and soles from the punishment, meted out in black masks, by Nawaz Sharif’s heavies.
His neck, too, bears the painful crick from a year spent in solitary confinement in a tiny cell at Rawalpindi’s Adila jail with a brick wrapped in newspapers for a pillow. Malik, in mortal fear of convicted terrorists and official hatchet men, found his monthly half-hour visit from his seven-year-old son his single comfort. **
Three times following his arrest in November 1996 the courts ordered Malik’s release. Each time he was re-arrested on trumped up charges until, after 12 months of humiliation, the Pakistani Supreme Court itself ruled his detention illegal.
Malik’s crime? To have been the deputy head of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Pakistan’s equivalent of the FBI, investigating allegations of massive corruption by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his family and cronies.
At 46, he was the youngest officer to reach such a senior rank, the equivalent of an army major-general. In a 20-year career, Malik had gained an impressive reputation in the West for anti-terrorist expertise, including investigation of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing in New York and of Saudi fundamentalist Osama bin Laden. And, after Malik’s inquiries were publicised by The Observer last year, he started a ball rolling which culminated in the coup against Sharif. ‘I have suffered enormously from doing my duty as a civil servant. My friends, family and colleagues have been harassed. My life has been at risk,’ Malik told The Observer in his first UK interview since fleeing Pakistan for London after an attempt on his life 15 months ago. ‘I am not a politician, but I welcome the army’s action. They have saved Pakistan from someone who was ruining the country. As a career officer, I would like to return to fulfil my official obligations as soon as possible.’
He is also promising further explosive revelations, which will implicate Sharif and senior Muslim League politicians in allegedly creaming off more of the country’s wealth overseas.
Malik’s report last year was painful enough for the deposed Prime Minister, as were the cat-and-mouse tactics by which Malik has been a thorn in his side since. The 200-page report, smuggled into the country on Sharif’s official Jumbo jet, set out a secret web of fake bank accounts and firms in offshore tax havens through which Sharif’s family allegedly siphoned off more than $70 million (£40m) into London property, Swiss investments and banks in New York.
The family, whose empire grew hugely while Sharif was in office, was also accused of defaulting on $120m of state bank loans, a favourite way of milking the public purse.
According to further documents seen by The Observer, however, the revelations appear to be the tip of an iceberg. Following inquiries over the past year, Malik says he has established further channels by which the Sharif family channelled money illegally offshore.
They include $2.74m allegedly deposited in the account of an Essex-based Pakistani family at the Atlas BOT (Bank of Tokyo) Investment Bank in Lahore as security for loans to four Sharif family members. They also include $4.6m deposited at the Al Faysal Investment Bank in Islamabad as security for a loan to Hamza Board Mills, a paper and forestry firm in the Sharif family’s Ittefaq group.
Among all his amassed wealth, Sharif also appears to have concealed ownership of a Russian-made Ulan helicopter, which he used during election campaigns. The aircraft, worth more than $1m, was bought from an Arab prince, Sheikh Abdul Rehman Bin Nasir Al Thani of Qatar, in November 1996 and registered in Sharif’s name at the Pakistani Civil Aviation Authority, according to official documents obtained by Malik. It was, however, not declared on Sharif’s statutory filing of assets and liabilities to the country’s Election Commission. ‘This was a man who once told me he could not afford a second-hand Mercedes. How then could he buy a helicopter?’ Malik asks.
Most explosive of all, however, is likely to be Malik’s new investigation, which is almost concluded and alleges laundering of more than $100m offshore via a network of UK trusts, Swiss accounts and offshore havens including Liechtenstein.
An Observer investigation has revealed other instances of alleged corruption during Sharif’s last administration:
• In an emergency budget after Pakistan’s nuclear tests last year, import duties on luxury cars were cut from 325 per cent to 125 per cent. A week later they were restored. In between a friend of Sharif imported 80 cars.
• In 1996 senior figures at Bankers Equity Limited, a finance house, granted a huge loan, believed to be more than £10m, to close associates of Sharif. Last summer the bank collapsed and several senior managers, including a friend of Sharif’s, were arrested. The loan is outstanding.
• After the 1997 elections the Sharif family, and their business concerns, were able to reschedule and renegotiate loans worth nearly £100m from eight banks. When ordered by courts to pay some back they surrendered 33 factories. Only one factory was fully operational, the rest closed, out of order, or both.
Sharif, his family and former Ministers have consistently dismissed the allegations as politically inspired.
Sharif himself is still in ‘preventative custody’, as the army calls it, in a government guesthouse on the outskirts of Islamabad. General Pervez Musharraf, the self-appointed Chief Executive of Pakistan, has not revealed his plans for the man ousted in a coup 10 days ago. Military sources say evidence is being gathered to put Sharif on trial for corruption and possibly treason.
Sharif’s former residence, the 100-acre Raiwind estate, near the city of Lahore in eastern Pakistan, is widely seen as a symbol of the opulent lifestyle the Sharifs have led since their pursuit of power and wealth began to pay off 15 years ago. Last week The Observer was the first Western newspaper to visit it since Sharif’s fall.
Brand new roads lead out of Lahore, where the Sharifs have two other houses, to the walled 100-acre estate. A turning leads to a helicopter pad and a set of steel gates. Beyond is an open, grassy compound where five houses, all in white-washed villa style, lie in a rough circle around a man-made pond. Each has a huge colonnaded porch sheltering a £20,000 four-wheel drive Jeep. Two of the buildings are partially constructed as is a pool, though a lake stocked with fish is completed. There is a small zoo.
All the houses are similar, with deep red carpets and velvet curtains throughout. Sharif’s own house is distinguished by the number of televisions - the Prime Minister was gadget crazy. Now army machine gunners have replaced the bodyguards who previously watched the compound’s perimeter. And the muzzles of their weapons point in as much as out.
Raiwind is, to the ousted Prime Minister’s critics at least, a symbol of how his administration manipulated government to benefit itself.
According to opposition spokesmen, Sharif has ‘used public office for personal economic gain’. It is corruption, they say, even if it is within the letter of the law.
Soon after coming to power for a second time in February 1997 Sharif declared the Raiwind site to be the ‘Prime Minister’s Camp Office’ - his home away from the capital. The local municipal authority took on the estate’s maintenance at an estimated annual cost of 40 million Pakistani rupees (£500,000) and built a new road for it, while the state has also supplied gas, electricity and a 200-line telephone exchange.
Near Raiwind last week feelings were mixed about Sharif’s fall. Many remain loyal to a man they see as a local boy made good. ‘He has done a lot round here,’ said Ahmadullah Ali, a farmer. ‘He is a good man.’ In the rough and tumble world of Pakistani politics Sharif may be down, but he still isn’t out.
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